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Throughout their formative years, Sonya tells her boys they can be whatever they want and that reading will help them realize their dreams. She continues to focus on what is important and keeps driving home the values of education and success as a priority. He develops an attitude for a short period and his grades begin to suffer, but Sonya does not give up on him nor on her goals for her sons. Ben falls under peer pressures and demands 'cool' clothes to fit in with the other kids. There were many temptations and challenges for Ben and Curtis that could have led them astray. The boys are not thrilled with the set-up but love and respect their mother and comply with her rules.

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The boys are allowed to watch only two hours of TV a week and have to read two books each week, providing Sonya with book reports. Though working three jobs at a time, Sonya is a task master. Despite her third-grade education, Sonya was an intelligent woman who knew that education was paramount for her sons to escape the ghetto and have successful lives. To escape her harsh existence, Sonya married at 13. Sonya was born in rural Tennessee and had 23 siblings. When 9-year-old Ben's father abandons his family, his heart is broken with the hurt lasting a life-time.īen's mother, Sonya, is the driving force in her sons' young lives. Growing up in poverty-stricken Detroit with his mother and elder brother, Curtis, Ben could have never dreamed of the future that lay ahead for him. Ben Carson becomes a world-class pediatric neurosurgeon at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.

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